You Should Say 'Thank You.'

This is US now: The Betrayal

On Friday Vice President Trump and his Couch Muppet JD Vance turned on a longtime U.S. ally on live television, accusing President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of not being thankful enough for the aid the U.S. has given Ukraine in its struggle against Russia. In doing so, Vice President Trump further signaled his support for Russia, which invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, promising its young recruits carte blanche to rape Ukrainian women.

Lots of comparisons have been made to Trump’s embrace of Putin and the build-up to WWII, Neville Chamberlain’s appeasing of Hitler in his occupation of the Czech Sudetenland, and Vidkun Quisling’s selling out of Norway to the Nazis. Pretending as if they understood anything about history, both Trump and Vance accused Zelenskyy of trying to start WWIII.

Chamberlain and Quisling are both well known dupes in the history of WWII, but less well known is the fact that while Russia eventually joined the allies and helped turn the tide of war, originally Stalin was allied with Hitler, and as Hitler invaded Poland from the West, Russia invaded from the East. Hitler broke this partnership with Russia in 1941 and invaded them too. After the war Stalin purged any mention of this initial partnership from Russian history books. Somehow it didn’t make it into my history books either.

But the Poles, the Finns, the Lithuanians, they remember. And they especially remember that when Russia came to ‘liberate’ them at end of the war, they raped and murdered the survivors of Nazi terror on their way across the war ravaged landscape.

So not much has changed.

Even the language Trump and his couch creature used was that of abusers:

“You should say thank you.”
”You should dress better.”
”You started this.”

It was a disgusting betrayal by disgusting people. The new Republican line seems to be, “what does Ukraine have to do with us?” But history knows what happens when Russia is left unchecked. Even if the GOP, which used to be a proud bulwark against Russian influence, has forgotten.